Ancestry of General
Billy Mitchell

Father of the U.S. Air Force

Jonathan Danforth

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Billy Mitchell — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 28 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Danforth 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Butterfield   
  • Birth Date:
  • 21 Dec 1752 
  • Birth Location:
  • Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 4 Feb 1807 
  • Death Location:
  • Cobbleskill, Schoharie, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Judith Spaulding
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 20 Jun 1781 
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  • Child:

  Thomas Paine Danforth (Ahnentafel No:14 )

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

    Jonathan Danforth is said to have participated in the Battle of Bunker Hill.

• Sources for Jonathan Danforth

  • ¹ Johnston, Elizabeth Bryant, Lineage Book: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Volume 3, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Harrisburg Publishing Company (1897), 47.
  • ² May, John Joseph, Danforth Genealogy: Nicholas Danforth of Framlingham, England, and Cambridge, N.E. (1589-1638) and William Danforth . ., Boston, Massachusetts: Charles H. Pope (1902), 68, 134.